This week’s Selection is from Tim. He’s got one of the sweetest 12 Strings we’ve ever seen! Here’s the lowdown… Story of his build: I’ve been building since 2000. I’m a fan of bassist Tom Petersson of Cheap Trick, and I was friends with Jol Dantzig in high school during the late ’60’s, who was … Read more
This week’s interview is with Eric Morgan. The bassist for the NYC Doom outfit “A Pale Horse Named Death”. Here are some excerpts from the interview: [Background about Eric in his own words] Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Been playing bass for 38 years, started right before I turned 10 years old, and have … Read more
The selected bass this week features a bass that Bastiaan Bargmann built himself. He says: Story of his build: This was the second scratch-built bass that I finished. It was actually a twin build, the firstborn was a double-cut fretted and this one, the second-born, was this single-cut fretless. Both had the same construction, neckthrough hippie sandwiches … Read more
The selected bass this week features a short scale design with a great story. Jake writes: This bass was the result of lying in bed wondering about what was possible. “Why are bass necks so long? Was it just because Leo Fender thought that was how they should be?” I’ve had a couple of short-scale … Read more
The feature bass player for this week is Alex Landry. We interviewed Alex, asked him about his gear and this is what he had to say. (Also, be sure to check out the video at the bottom of this article to hear some of his playing. Tell us a little bit about you… My name … Read more
The feature bass player for this week is Seth Glassman. We interviewed Seth, asked him about his gear and this is what he had to say. (Also, be sure to check out the video at the bottom of this article to hear some of his playing. Most of his playing has been done with his … Read more
The selected bass this week features a unique design with some great history. John writes: I built this bass with the help of my friend Drew in 1981. At that time there was not a large market of replacement pick ups and parts available to the general public. You would basically buy an instrument off-the-shelf … Read more
The feature bass this week features a throwback design and some great hardware. Builder Geo Kitta writes: The Calabrone (Italian for Wasp) was inspired by the the late 60’s Coral Wasp short-scale bass. It is a 32” scale, 22 fret, set-back headstock neck that is 1-5/8″ at the nut to a 2-1/4” heel width, with a rotary wheel truss-rod … Read more
Rarely do we get to have this much fun with a Bass of the Week, but this one is an exception. Steve over at Doner Designs just sent this in. They don’t build these to make money, all the proceeds from the sale will go to charity. Read more about it and the use of … Read more
This week’s selection is from Dimitris at XTRM basses. Here’s his story: I like testing my skills and building unique style basses,with specs that not found on “common” basses. I was looking to add all the things i would like to try on a single build. First of all,it has to be 5-string.Second,i wanted a longer scale,so … Read more
